Council services - insourcing on the rise

 

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies reports in its New Start magazine that councils who enthusiastically embraced outsourcing of services over the last twenty years, particularly in southern England, are now bringing them back in. Why?

 

 

Read their report;

It’s time to dispel a few myths around outsourcing.

 

Quote; 

' The Apse research found services right across the scope of local authority delivery were being insourced from administrative and back office to streetscene services such as grounds maintenance, street cleansing, refuse and waste. A number of these, although not exclusively, were in southern England and it is perhaps noticeable that this area embraced outsourcing more freely than the rest of the country and has therefore gone through the lifecycle of outsourcing the contract, hitting problems, investing time trying to make the thing work and then ultimately realising that the only guaranteed solution is to bring the service back in house.'